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Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks

New EPA standards and $100-a-barrel oil are creating demand for hybrid big rigs, garbage trucks and dump trucks, even with the 35 percent premium over conventional vehicles, Forbes reports. The appeal: hybrid trucks can deliver fuel savings of 5 percent...

Published 03-19-2008 2:40 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Automotive, Fossil Fuels, Manufacturing, Hybrid Technology, Strategy & Leadership

PHH GreenFleet Adds Telematics Service

PHH Arval has added data from telematics to GreenFleet’s PHH Onboard service to help companies cut their emissions. Using data captured from the telematics device in each vehicle, PHH Arval says that companies can monitor and impact driver behavior...

Published 03-11-2008 1:41 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Automotive, Efficiency, Products & Planning

Subaru Among Companies Nearing Zero-Waste

Subaru says that 99.8 percent of the refuse from its Indiana plant - on track to produce 180,000 cars this year - is recycled or reused so it doesn’t go to a landfill, including about five percent that goes to a waste-to-energy plant that burns...

Published 02-19-2008 2:32 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Waste, Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Recycling, Strategy & Leadership

Toyota Plants Trees

Toyota Material Handling will plant 20,000 trees - one for every 8-Series lift truck sold last year - in national forests damaged by fire or other natural causes. The actual planting will be done through the Arbor Day Foundation. Toyota also said it will...

Published 02-05-2008 9:39 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, Contracts & Installations

Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener

In a speech that promised widespread improvement and reform throughout Wal-Mart and its supply chain, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr., pledged to cut the energy used by many of its company’s products 25 percent, reports the New York Times. “We...

Published 01-24-2008 2:24 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Clean Energy, Electricity, People, Wind Energy, Strategy & Leadership

Safeway To Run Entire Fleet On Biodiesel

Safeway says it will be the first major retailer to make its entire fleet of trucks operate on biodiesel fuels. The announcement will be made at its Dublin, California, store which is powered by solar energy. Safeway plans to power 23 stores with solar...

Published 01-18-2008 1:31 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Major Players, U.S., Automotive, Business-to-Consumer, Biofuel, Retail & Restaurants

Environmental Concerns Impacting Fuel Management Decisions

Ninety-two percent of fleet executives predict fuel prices will remain high or rise over the next year, according to eyefortransport’s Fuel Management for Fleets’ 2008 report. Traditional fuel purchasing strategies are still the most popular...

Published 01-17-2008 1:01 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, Fossil Fuels, Predictions, Today's Trend, Strategy & Leadership, Oil & Gas

Presentation On Greening Corporate Fleets

Nigel Underdown, speaking on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust, at the 2007 Fleet News’ Hit for Six Conference.

Published 12-19-2007 1:15 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Business-to-Business, Automotive, Travel, Today's Video, Research & Technology

New California GHG Rules Affect Large Emitters, Supply Chains

The California Air Resources Board has passed mandatory reporting regulations that require annual reporting from the largest facilities in the state, accounting for 94 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial and commercial sources in California...

Published 12-10-2007 10:19 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, Reporting, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Pollution, U.S., Automotive, Manufacturing, Industrial Goods, Policy & Law

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and without requiring big changes in consumer lifestyles, according to “Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions:...

Published 11-30-2007 11:22 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, U.S., Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Economics, Industrial Goods, Electricity, Biofuel, Wind Energy, Utilities, Coal, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Wave Energy, Predictions, Nuclear, Biomass, Today's Trend, Strategy & Leadership, Carbon Offsets/RECs, Oil & Gas

Coke To Add 120 Hybrid-Electric Trucks In 2008

Coca-Cola Enterprises has added five hybrid-electric trucks to their distribution center in the Bronx. The Bronx sales center has 90 trucks servicing customers in Manhattan and the Bronx. Over the next year, an additional 120 side load hybrid-electric...

Published 11-30-2007 8:06 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, Hybrid Technology, Contracts & Installations

Home Depot To Green Truck Operations At Ports

Home Depot and logistics provider California Multimodal have joined the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, pledging to implement clean truck technologies in their operations at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Specifically, the two companies...

Published 11-27-2007 4:02 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, New Technology, Products & Planning, Retail & Restaurants

UK Testing LHVs As Way To Cut CO2 Emissions

The UK is testing LHVs, or longer, heavier vehicles, as a way to cut carbon emissions from the supply chain, Environmental Graffiti reports. LHVs consist of two trailers joined together behind a single engine. The trucks can carry 60 percent more than...

Published 11-27-2007 3:58 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Europe, Business-to-Business, Automotive, Research & Technology

UPS Using Zap Electric Cars For Small Parcel Deliveries

UPS rolled out a small parcel delivery service this week in Northern California using 42 electric cars and trucks from ZAP. The UPS branch in Petaluma, California has leased an initial fleet of 42 ZAP Xebra electric city cars and trucks for their small...

Published 11-15-2007 10:52 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, Business-to-Consumer, Business Services, Clean Energy, Contracts & Installations, Electricity

Port Of Los Angeles Adopts Proposal Banning Older Trucks

The Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners has adopted a proposed measure that will implement a progressive ban of older trucks from operation at the port of Los Angeles beginning in October 2008, Green Car Congress reports. The ban will reduce port-related...

Published 11-06-2007 9:37 AM by Environmental Leader: Green Business and Corporate Sustainability News

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, Business-to-Business, U.S., Automotive, Policy & Law

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